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are anxious to see how the new guys do."
The Bulldogs will unveil a new outfield
this season. Rupcich said the crew has a
good combination of ipeed and power
and a good mixture of righty-vcnus-lefty.
And the best part, Rupcich said, is they all
have good arms and gloves.
The infield looks like a carbon of the
squad that toiled last season for Rupcich
and head coach Bob Bennett. The player
to watch in the infield will be shortstop
Tim Thiessen.
Thiessen would have to be called the
kind of player coaches only dream about.
Simply, the junior can do it all. Thiessen
mainly played at short and did some
pitching for Fresno last season, while
filling in at third and second bases.
Rupcich said he hopes to see Thiessen, a
pro prospect, playing short and pitching.
He added he and Bennett are not afraid to
move the fleet infielder around.
"When we make a move with Timmy, it
is usually for the good of the team,"
Rupcich said. "He is a legitimate college
shortstop. He's got it all—quick feet, good
hands and a good arm."
Rupcich said the most difficult part of
Thiessen's versatility is that a pitcher
needs a certain amount of mental and
physical preparation before entering a
game in a relief situation, as Thiessen
does. Thiessen did not have too much
difficulty last season a,nd does'not expect
any this year.
The pitching is strengthened with the
addition of several junior college transfers
and freshmen recruits, Rupcich said. A
good crop of returnees will keep the
catching crew in strong shape.
John Hoover, who won a CSU F record
12 games as a freshman last season, will
return and try to disprove the so-called
Sophomore Jinx.
"He doesn't really think about it and I
don't think he would let it happen—
John's too much of a corapetitor.'Rup-
cich said.
Rupcich said there is no real set pitch¬
ing rotation or any one thrower designat¬
ed as starter and reliever, although Hoov¬
er is the top starter at the outset.
Fresno pulled Randy Graham from
Santa Rosa JC and Kurt Walker from
Fresno City College. Ken Galloway
comes from San Jose CC. Sophomores
Bob Jacobson and Kelly Brown, and
freshman Vince Barger are among the
hurlcrs Rupcich and Bennett will count on -
this year. CSUF will also look to seniors
Bob Marquez, a transfer from UC San
Francisco who red-shirted as a Bulldog in
1981, and Mark Wenzel.
Rupcich said he and Bennett plan to
limit the pitchers to about 75 pitches in the
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opening series with St. Marys at Beiden
Field this weekend.
If someone is really throwing well and
has 70 or 80 pitches in the seventh or
eighth, well stay with him," he added.
Rupcich calls the CSUF infield experi¬
enced, although a sophomore will hold
down third base. The Bulldogs like Randy
Asadoor, who played well in the regional
play-offs last season. Terry Pendleton will
back him up, as well as playing behind
Greg Funk at second base and vying with��Art Holland in the outfield.
'But we're still not
sure what we've got
...we'll do a lot
of switching around
in the Stanford
game.'
"Terry will play someplace," Rupcich
said. "Well find a spot for him."
Thiessen gets the nod at short and
Funk, like Thiessen, is back for his third
season in a Bulldog uniform. Junior Dan
O'Leary is right behind Funk at second.
O'Leary, a transfer from San Mateo JC,
and Joe Xavier, a freshman from Selma,
have gained the confidence of the CSUF
coaches.
"Xavier will probably play short when
Thiessen is pitching," Rupcich said.
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Powerful Pete Dalena returns for his
senior Mason at first base, backed by .
glove man Ken Groth. an all-leaguer at
Fresno CC last year. Jim Cranford, a slick
fielder, is another backup at first.
"We can go with Kenny at first for
defense and have Pete as a DH (desig¬
nated hitter)," Rupcich said, further il¬
lustrating the Bulldog versatility and flexi¬
bility.
In the outfield, Fresno starts from vir¬
tually scratch after several years of wealth.
Santa Barbara JC transfer Holland brings
defensive skills to Fresno, while Rupcich
has been impressed with Pendleton's bat
of late. They are tabbed in left field.
Returnee Gaeton Tamo and Los Angel¬
es Harbor JC transfer Rod Davis are
battling for the center field nod, while
College of the Sequoias transfer Russ Hall
and sophomore Todd Soares vie for right
field.
Rupcich also lists fleet Eric Fox, who
showed promise in the fall with the Bull¬
dog football team, as another outfield
prospect.
At catcher, Todd Bennett, the head
coach's son, returns for duty. Emery Phil¬
lips and Rob Gcels, a pair of sophomores,
provide a solid backup.
Rupcich said Bennett and Geels, both
left handers, and Phillips, a right hander,
give Fresno State a good righty-lefty
combination.
Three others are listed as possibilities in
the backstop position, including soph¬
omore Jim Davis. Rupcich said Davis
showed "tremendous improvement" dur¬
ing the winter league season.
"But we're still not sure what we've got,"
Rupcich said. "Well do a lot of switching
around in the Stanford game."
He said six or seven pitchers will make
the trip to Palo Alto and hopefully "well
be able to answer some questions."
CSU F will meet one other ranked team
this season. Fullerton State, on top of the
rankings for the pre-season, plays host to
the Bulldogs on a Feb. 26-27 series.
Stanford kicked off its season over the
weekend by sweeping three from San
Francisco. One of the wins was a five-hit,
3-0 shutout of the Dons.
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game Friday night and a double header
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Variety of
housing open
to students
By Laura Lang
Daily Collegian SutT Writer
Off to college, and out on your own. Its been a long wait, and
now you feel ready to conquer the world.
As you pull away from the curb the first pangs hit, your stomach
feels queasy—where will you live, how will you eat, will you even
survive?   —
Finding a place of your own is the first survival tactic most
students new to the area have to face. Two options are available on
or very near the campus in the resident hall and greek systems, and
of course toe area is nourished with a variety of off-campus
options.
The CSUF Housing Office is set up to aid students in finding a
place to live either on or off campus. They fill dorm rooms, and
provide off-campus housing information in a booklet—hoping to
save students the time, gas, and money of having to visit each unit
in the area. The office also keeps a current file of houses for rent, or
of families willing to rent a room to students. Often the family
arrangement will include kitchen privileges or meals, sometimes
babysitting or light house work.
Dorm living is an option John Wetzel, director of the Housing
Office, described as a buffer zone. "For many students and their
parents dorm living is a desirable transition from a structured
family life to total independence; it provides an environment with
some control," Wetzel said.
"Some control would be in the hands of the Resident Advisors.
They will usually know where a person should be; if he is no11he re,
they become concerned," he said.
Another magnet for dorm life is the friendship and involvement
that invades the halls. "One of the beauties of dorm life are the
regular weekend dances, free movie showings, trip* and cultural
programs. With residents hall living it is hard not to get involved, it
is difficult to become isolated," Wetzel said.
The dorms fill up quickly each semester and the overflow of
applicants is put on a waiting list. Last minute changes occur as
. students decide to live elsewhere or to discontinue their education.
When this happens, Wetzel said his office starts calling the waiting
list numbers, but by the time they reach the formerly interested
party, they have usually found alternative housing. This semester
the dorms filled quickly, and a greater percentage of men were
seeking residence housing. The excess of male applicants may
cause a shift in the Fall 1982 percentage of male/female allotment.
The balance of students admitted to the halls must legally repre¬
sent the same percentage as those who applied, and the percen¬
tages periodically change. -
Wetzel has been housing director for four years at CSUF;. His
office is responsible for the dorms, and the suite building.   V* •
In matching dorm roommates, the housing staff first separates
the applications of smokers from non-smokers. They then try to
match students by age and interest but the selections are not
always successful. "Our matching is not foolproof. Often a student
will say he's active and be isnt, and of course college life changes
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Reduced federal funds cut financial aid
By Laura Lang
Dairy Collegian SutT Writer
Reduced federal funding, program
cuts, and a higher demand for financial
aid caused 400 CSUF students to be
placed on a waiting list this year until
money could be found to help them.
Joe Houston, director of financial aids,'
was forced to work around a SO percent
federal aid cutback by placing applicants
still in need (when funds ran out) on a high
priority (low income) need list. Next years
consequences are uncertain until awards
are made in late April or May, but impact
of the cutbacks is expected tocreateevena
s i r onger gap between what money is avail¬
able and how many students apply.
"The Federal government is edging out
of the picture, to leave control of aid
programs to local and state offices,"
Houston said. The changeover has a
good, long-term effect, but the short-term
effect of federalizing has caused problems
of still uncertain magnitude.
There is a short supply and a great
demand, and it is difficult to decide who
will get aid and who won't," said Houston.
A national unemployment figure of 9
percent, which by summer could be as
high as 11 percent, has created a surge of
re-entry students. Students who required
aid—first time students from low income
families, and other special need students
were placed on the priority list of needs
and income.
But Houston sees a positive side of the
cutbacks, his renewed faith in people.
"People are resilient and determined; the
human animal will>adjust. The hellion
days of student aid programs with a J12 to
14 billion dollar budget are past, and
students will cope with the limiting $4 to 5
billion dollar package."
"People who want their education will
struggle for it," he said.
The funding philosophies of the fed¬
eral government has changed. 'The Great
Society' of the Lyndon B. Johnson era
advocated government funding for educa¬
tional needs. It was felt at that time that
the government should be responsible for
opening the doors to education for stu¬
dents of all incomes," Houston said.
"Reagan's administration wants the
same goals accomplished, but the funding
just isn't there. Balancing the national
budget failed to capitalize on our best
resource—the population. Billions of
dollars were spent on defense, which
could have funded education, because the
people's education and training are a vital
part of defense."
It is ironic that student aid is an idea
originated for ihe defense of our nation.
After Russia launched Sputnik, there was
a nation-wide scare that it was ahead of
America in the space race and a bill was
passed to fund the training of more
engineers and scientists to keep pace.
Passed in 1957, the National Defense Law
was the answer from Eisenhowers Re¬
publican administration.
By reducing funding, Houston specu¬
lates, the current Republican administra¬
tion has lost sight of these original long-
range goals.
The long-range rewards are still causing
students to be caught in the transitional
lurch,, in need for funding that does not
exist. Houston suggests that students
submit applications as early as possible,
so they are not put on the waiting list. The
financial aids office is also running a series
of workshops to help students fill out
required forms.
The workshops will be held Thursday
and Friday of this week, continuing next
Monday and Tuesday, upstairs in the
College Union from 8:30 to noon. Office
personnel will assist students with finan¬
cial aids applications on an individual
basis, help determine which supporting
documents students need,'and explain the
different programs offered by the office.